Posts tagged understanding macro nutrients
The Gut - A guide for athletes

An insight into gut health, it’s importance in our lives, and what we can do to improve our gut health.

In many ways, our gut is part of our identity; totally unique and responsible for many of our initial emotions and feelings. Gut issues can affect our day, how we connect to others and our level of self esteem. Given the power it holds over our wellbeing and performance, it is important that we do everything we can to maximise our gut health.

Primarily, the gut is the process of converting food to fuel, accessing the nutrients needed and handling all the stuff we really do not need. Within the gut is a range of third party bacteria and organisms, helping (or hindering) the breakdown and extraction of the good from the bad in whatever we consume.

What happens when our gut health suffers, and what can be done to prevent and treat this?


Read More
Why Supplements needed improving.

The question remains, could we simply bypass supplements and achieve the same results from diet alone? We know a nutritious, balanced diet underpins overall health...but is it possible to alter a diet and incorporate all the benefits that supplements can offer?

Supplements exist to take away the difficulty; to provide the benefits of everything the world has to offer for the human body to thrive...in a simple, fast and convenient format.

Read More